Fellows in Residence

Architecture

Marcel Sánchez Prieto

Architect and Associate Professor of Architecture, University of San Diego — Mexico/United States

Marcel Sánchez Prieto is an architect and educator whose work bridges architectural design, urban theory, and social practice. He is Principal of CRO Studio and founder of the Transborder Association of Architectural Education (TAAE), a network that connects academic and civic institutions across the U.S.-Mexico border. His design-research spans self-built housing and civic infrastructure, with a focus on spatial justice and the role of architecture in contested geographies.

At Bogliasco, Marcel will expand Transborder Ecologies, a research project and editorial series investigating architectural typologies shaped by migration, displacement, and transborder economies along the U.S.–Mexico border. Through design analysis, visual studies, and editorial development, he will explore how these dynamics generate new spatial conditions, contributing to frameworks for transregional urbanism.

Dance

Sandra Kramerová

Choreographer — Slovakia/Spain

Sandra Kramerová is a Madrid based dance artist of Slovak origin creating dances around womanhood, social oppression, and ecology. As a Dance MFA graduate of Sarah Lawrence College (NY), Sandra has been supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten in the Netherlands as a New Maker (2021-2023) and has been performing internationally (in Spain, The Netherlands, Slovakia, Israel and the U.S.A.). Her multimedia dance Body as a Weapon was listed among 5 best performances of 2020 by newspaper Het Parool.

While in Bogliasco, Sandra will work on two dance projects (Anatomy of Freedom and In the language of a tree) that explore the impact of the ecological crisis on the body. Using movement and interaction with natural materials and fibers (wool, hair, etc.), the body becomes a conduit for imagining sensitive forms of coexistence between the body and the environment based on listening and feeling, generating a dance language inspired by natural cycles, Fibonacci sequencing, and interconnectedness through material.

Film/Video

Mohammad Shawky Hassan

Filmmaker, Writer, and Video Artist — Egypt/Germany

Mohammad Shawky Hassan is an Egyptian filmmaker, writer and video artist living and working in Berlin. His video “And on a Different Note” was acquired by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York as part of its permanent collection in 2016, and his first feature-length film "Shall I Compare You to a Summer's Day?" premiered at the Berlinale Forum in 2022.

"Watch Before Deletion" is structured as a talk show episode that traces the elusive life of Amar, a fictional queer diva who escapes her native country, Egypt, where she was a revered cultural icon, first to Lebanon and eventually to Germany, where she spent the rest of her life in exile. Her sudden death sparks speculations about her enigmatic life, whose narrative unravels through a cast of celebrity guests consisting of disciples, rivals, critics and alleged lovers.

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Architecture

Constance Vale

Architect and Chair of Undergraduate Architecture, Washington University in St. Louis — United States

Constance Vale is the Chair of Undergraduate Architecture and Associate Professor at Washington University in St. Louis. She is a licensed architect and co-founder of AVV A, a collaborative practice that bridges research and built work. Vale’s creative work and scholarship explore intersections between architecture, art, theater, urbanism, and emerging technology. Her writing and design practice examine how artificial intelligence and digital tools are transforming architectural theory and methods of representation.

Historically, interior space and textiles have been marginalized within architectural discourse, often overlooked in favor of exterior form and structure. The historical association of interiors and textiles with “women’s work” has contributed to their relative neglect by architectural historians and preservationists. Constance's proposed project foregrounds interiors and textiles as vital components of architectural discourse. Using photographs and 3D scans of stone fortifications and intimate interior spaces, she will create diaphanous architectural interventions. During the day, sunlight will emphasize the facade, while at night, artificial light will reveal interior depths—producing an atmospheric inversion of visibility. The result will be a spectrum of spatial conditions: opaque and translucent, hard and soft, public and private.

Dance

Alex Rodabaugh

Choreographer, Dancer, and Performer — United States

Alex Rodabaugh is a choreographer, dancer, and performer from Lima, OH, based in NYC. Alex's work has been shown at River to River Festival, Dance & Process at the Kitchen, American Realness, Draftworks at Danspace, PRELUDE, and Movement Research at Judson Church. Alex performed n-1 as a 2024 Artist-in-Residence at Center for Performance Research. Alex has performed in works by Moriah Evans, Simone Forti, Tess Dworman, Miguel Gutierrez, Ishmael Houston-Jones, and Bailey Williams.

Break-Up Tunnel Vision Infinity, Nth Edition is a dance with four dancers originally from the Midwest, currently based in NYC, who have traveled with and performed in editions of the dance between Alex's hometown, Lima, OH, and NYC beginning in 2019. These dances are a search for meaning in a splintered American reality between a large city and a small town. After a failed hero’s journey of returning this dance to his hometown, Alex will work toward premiering the final edition in NYC.

Film/Video

Sabrina Dhawan

Screenwriter and Professor of Film, NYU Tisch — United Kingdom/India/United States

Sabrina Dhawan is the screenwriter of Monsoon Wedding, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for a Golden Globe and BAFTA. Other work includes Cosmopolitan (PBS), Kaminey and Ishqiya and the Monsoon Wedding stage musical (Berkeley Rep). She has written for 20th Century Fox, HBO, Netflix, Disney, Fox Searchlight, ABC Family, Killer Films, UTV and Excel Entertainment for whom she’s developing Chardi Kala. She is a Professor at NYU’s Tisch School and has taught across the US, India, Uganda, Tanzania, Singapore, and Qatar.

Set in 1983 Delhi, India, Sabrina will be working on a screenplay with multiple narratives. The lives of ambitious, spineless bureaucrats, and their unraveling family lives; their domestic staff edging toward rebellion, and their convent-schooled teenagers confronting shame and sexual desire. All told in the backdrop of a socialist country that is on the cusp of sweeping liberalization and change – and the seismic aftermath of the assassination of a Prime Minister.